Category Archives: Urban scene

Aug 06 2026
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Daily Post, Transport, Urban scene

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Wednesday 5th August 2026, 1.30pm (day 5,459)

Clifton Suspension Bridge, 5/8/26

Up until Tuesday afternoon Bristol was the largest city in the UK that I had never previously visited, but it can now pass on that honour to Coventry. A first full day here revealed many things of interest but to illustrate them I pick what is almost certainly the city’s most depicted feature. Why not, though? I am partial to a good bridge and in the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the place certainly has one of those: this is an extremely handsome and impressive construction, even now. The road deck is nearly 250 feet above the water below — how does one even start going about such an enterprise? OK, build the towers first, but then what? But that is why I am not or never will be Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who designed it — though did not live to see it completed.

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Aug 01 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Urban scene

Kiveton Park

Friday 31st July 2026, 2.30pm (day 5,454)

Kiveton Park, 31/7/26

I admire this kind of large-scale decrepitude and collapse. It is not that the whole of Kiveton Park Industrial Estate looks like this, but nevertheless, in my opinion this was the best-looking corner of it. Somehow it seems strange that this hangar is eroding from the bottom up rather than the other way around, but see for yourselves. (Pictured on my latest County Top walk — see the other blog.)

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Jul 29 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Whirligig

Wednesday 29th July 2026, 5.05pm (day 5,452)

Whirligig, 29/7/26

The thing about whirligigs is that if they’re working, one can’t get a decent photo of them. Only when they stop moving can the capture be made: but then it’s not whirling, is it? You see, these are the kinds of things that I drift into thinking about while sitting in the pub at the end of a day’s writing (and most of my days are that at the moment). Everything I took today seemed to be some sort of abstract.

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Jul 28 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

The empty table

Monday 27th July 2026, 11.40am (day 5,450)

Empty table, 27/7/26

Why did the tipping of this chair bring to my mind a feeling of slight melancholy, as if the summer is over and all to come is the decline? I don’t know, but somehow, it does. Even if it is still July and (at least at 11:40am) the sun was still shining…

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Jul 23 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Campus chill-out

Thursday 23rd July 2026, 2.55pm (day 5,446)

Asleep on campus, 23/7/26

Well, I can dig it. I felt much the same way at this point in the week.

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Jul 22 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Spill life

Tuesday 21st July 2026, 9.55am (day 5,444)

Spill life, 21/7/26

One of those shots chosen as much because I thought of a neat title for it as for its photographic qualities. But let us continue, at least for a day, the orange theme begun by David Byrne’s entourage on Saturday night. Other ‘hotel, restaurant & catering linen’ options are available, I am sure.

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Jul 15 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Cultural icon, late

Tuesday 14th July 2026, 10.35pm (day 5,437)

Phone box, late, 14/7/26

Sustaining this blog requires me to at least try to see familiar things in a new light now and again. There was no particular reason why the phone box in the centre of town caught my eye (on the way home from the cinema), but it did. Perhaps it was just looking very much like itself. These things, collectively, are a recognisable British icon — not quite technology, not quite architecture, a mixture of the two. This one is still functional as far as I know (that is, you can make telephone calls from it): it was being used as a library for a while but that is no longer the case.

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Jul 13 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Random contents of scavenger bag

Sunday 12th July 2026, 5.40pm (day 5,435)

Puzzle pieces, 12/7/26

Our acquaintance Toby is something of a scavenger, the sort of person who will go through the skip outside your house and in five minutes retrieve from it a range of interesting items that you had no idea could be found within. What he has in mind for these various 3-D puzzles, who knows — but I do not think it involves simply putting this one back together.

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Jul 12 2026
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Urban scene

Friday DVD stall

Friday 10th July 2026, 3.10pm (day 5,433)

Friday DVD stall, 10/7/26

If you find yourself in Hebden Bridge on a Friday afternoon and in need of some cheap DVDs, this market stall is the place to come, believe me. I’d spend more money here except that most of the films stocked that I do want to see, we already own. “Nordic Noir” is a new genre on me — but I think it just means that in this box can be found a couple of copies of The Bridge.

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Jul 06 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The pipework

Sunday 5th July 2026, 3.40pm (day 5,428)

White Swan drains, 5/7/26

Some Sundays are eventful and interesting days. This was not one of them, although neither was it unpleasant. But photographically there wasn’t much to look at, so 5/7/26 will have to be marked by a study of drainage. Important stuff, though — you try living without it for a while.

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